Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.